TY - JOUR
TI - GRAMMATICALIZATION PATHS AND CHAOS: DETERMINISM AND UNPREDICTABILITY OF THE
	SEMANTIC DEVELOPMENT OF VERBAL CONSTRUCTIONS (PART 3 – CHAOS IN GRAMMATICALIZATION)
AU - Andrason, Alexander
TI - GRAMMATICALIZATION PATHS AND CHAOS: DETERMINISM AND UNPREDICTABILITY OF THE
	SEMANTIC DEVELOPMENT OF VERBAL CONSTRUCTIONS (PART 3 – CHAOS IN GRAMMATICALIZATION)
AB - 
	This paper demonstrates that by applying Chaos Theory to the modelling of the evolution of verbal forms and verbal systems, it is possible to view classical grammaticalization paths as universal, and align this deterministic assumption with the unpredictability of concrete grammatical developments. The author argues that such an explanation is possible because traditional grammaticalization paths do not represent realistic cases of grammatical evolutions, but rather correspond to abstract and non-realistic deterministic laws which codify the order of the incorporation of new meanings to the semantic potential of a gram. Therefore, from a synchronic perspective, they can be used to represent the semantic potential of a form as a map or a state. In contrast, a realistic development emerges as a trajectory connecting such maps or states. Consequently, the cross-linguistic typological model of realistic evolutionary processes of a certain type corresponds to a state-space – it is a cluster of all possible trajectories the grams of a certain class can travel. This article – the last of the series – will formulate a chaotic model of the realistic evolution of verbal grams.
VL - 2017
IS - Volume 134, Issue 1
PY - 2017
SN - 1897-1059
C1 - 2083-4624
SP - 53
EP - 66
DO - 10.4467/20834624SL.17.004.6919
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-linguistica-uic/artykul/grammaticalization-paths-and-chaos-determinism-and-unpredictability-of-the-semantic-development-of-verbal-constructions-part-3-chaos-in-grammaticalization
KW - grammaticalization paths
KW - verbal semantics
KW - Chaos Theory
KW - Cognitive Linguistics
KW - semantic maps